[maaku]

But then how else do you socially signal yourself as an expert in a field you may or may not know anything about?

[kordless]

"I've heard good things about the team at X.", if you've actually heard good things about them. "Those guys at X claim they can do Y.", if you have the folks at X on record actually claiming Y. Otherwise, you're just repeating something you heard, or wish you had heard.